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From: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
To: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] docs: dma-attributes: Fix dma_alloc_attrs() name
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:26:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1b9ac113-336b-479b-820b-5b8950bdeec5@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260822121651.1559-4-kmehltretter@gmail.com>

On 22.08.2026 14:16, Karl Mehltretter wrote:
> dma_alloc_attr() does not exist; the allocation API is
> dma_alloc_attrs().
>
> Fixes: d5724f172fd1 ("common: DMA-mapping: add DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING attribute")
> Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol
> Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst b/Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst
> index 123c8468d58f2..067ce6dbb404b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst
> @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ such mapping is non-trivial task and consumes very limited resources
>  (like kernel virtual address space or dma consistent address space).
>  Buffers allocated with this attribute can be only passed to user space
>  by calling dma_mmap_attrs(). By using this API, you are guaranteeing
> -that you won't dereference the pointer returned by dma_alloc_attr(). You
> +that you won't dereference the pointer returned by dma_alloc_attrs(). You
>  can treat it as a cookie that must be passed to dma_mmap_attrs() and
>  dma_free_attrs(). Make sure that both of these also get this attribute
>  set on each call.

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-24  9:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-22 12:16 [PATCH 0/7] docs: core-api: Fix stale function names and a broken example Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-22 12:16 ` [PATCH 1/7] docs: cpu_hotplug: Fix multi-instance removal calls Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-22 17:25   ` Randy Dunlap
2026-08-24 16:57   ` Jonathan Corbet
2026-08-24 18:05     ` Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-24 18:28       ` Jonathan Corbet
2026-08-22 12:16 ` [PATCH 2/7] docs: irq-affinity: Restore grep in example Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-22 17:25   ` Randy Dunlap
2026-08-22 12:16 ` [PATCH 3/7] docs: dma-attributes: Fix dma_alloc_attrs() name Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-22 17:25   ` Randy Dunlap
2026-08-24  9:26   ` Marek Szyprowski [this message]
2026-08-22 12:16 ` [PATCH 4/7] docs: swiotlb: Fix maximum mapping size helper Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-22 17:26   ` Randy Dunlap
2026-08-22 12:16 ` [PATCH 5/7] docs: this_cpu_ops: Fix SRCU helper names Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-22 16:39   ` Paul E. McKenney
2026-08-22 17:28   ` Randy Dunlap
     [not found] ` <20260822121651.1559-7-kmehltretter@gmail.com>
2026-08-22 12:28   ` [PATCH 6/7] docs: xarray: Fix xas_try_split() name Zi Yan
2026-08-22 17:30   ` Randy Dunlap
     [not found] ` <20260822121651.1559-8-kmehltretter@gmail.com>
2026-08-22 17:32   ` [PATCH 7/7] docs: debugobjects: Fix debug_object_init() name Randy Dunlap

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